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Jeffrey Klein
Chief Executive Officer
Jeffrey Klein is Chief Executive Officer of Xamplify, a real-time data analysis company. One of the founding editors of Mother Jones, Klein was editor in chief from 1992 through 1998. Under Klein's direction in 1993, Mother Jones became the first national magazine to establish an online presence--the MoJo Wire. The site has frequently been acclaimed as one of the web's most vital, data-rich and user-friendly by Yahoo! and the New York Times, among others. Klein led Mother Jones to numerous national magazine awards, primarily for investigative reporting on consumer and environmental issues.
Klein also served as editor in chief of San Francisco magazine and founded the Sunday magazine of Knight-Ridder's San Jose Mercury News. Under Klein's leadership, the magazine received dozens of national prizes. A graduate of Columbia, he has taught graduate journalism at Stanford University and U.C. Berkeley, and appears frequently on television and radio as both a guest and a host specializing in uncompromising inquiry. He has written for many newspapers and magazines; currently he is a contributing editor for Brill's Content.
jklein@xamplify.com.
Bob Burnett
President
Bob Burnett has more than thirty years' experience managing leading-edge technology projects. He was founding Vice President of Engineering for Cisco Systems, whose engineers he led in building the routers that made the Internet commercially viable. Burnett headed the first implementation of a complete COBOL compiler, and then the first commercial multiprocessor for Burroughs in the 1960s. He later managed the development of the first digital tester for VLSI chips at Fairchild and led the implementation team for Rolm/IBM's large scale digital branch exchange -- yet another first. Burnett continues to work as an entrepreneur with for-profit and non-profit enterprises. He sits on the board of Xamplify as Vice Chairman. Burnett is a graduate of Stanford University.
mailto:bburnett@xamplify.com.
Sumer Johal
Chief Technology Officer
Sumer Johal is Xamplify's Chief Technology Officer. He is an expert in real-time information transfer and scalable, secure design. As Vice President of Engineering at C-Tribe, an e-commerce-based affinity club company, he was responsible for the implementation of wireless, IVR and Internet sites, leading a team of contractors and developers through two full-lifecycle product launches. He also designed and deployed market analysis, email marketing, and data-capture tools for large-scale targeted marketing.
Previously Sumer founded PSG, Inc., a consulting practice specializing in the architecture, design, and implementation of IT frameworks for clients including Nortel, Hewlett-Packard, AT&T and British Telecom. He was also Senior Operations Research Engineer at Analog Devices, Inc., where he conceived and designed plant-wide automated scheduling software to improve manufacturing efficiency. Johal graduated from M.I.T. with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and an M.S. in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, specializing in programming techniques, scalability and computer architecture.
mailto:sjohal@xamplify.com
Daniel Ortega
Senior Vice President Marketing & Business Development
Dan Ortega is Xamplify's Senior Vice President of Marketing and Business Development. He brings over 21 years of technology marketing experience to his post, having held senior management positions at a series of well-known and highly successful software and hardware companies. Previously, he was Vice President of Marketing at Metacode Technologies (recently acquired by Interwoven), driving product positioning and product management, marketing communications, and strategic planning. He was Director of Intercontinental Marketing at Sunsoft (Sun Microsystems) where he was responsible for managing the Latin American, Asian, and Australian markets.
Dan was also Director of International Marketing at Centigram Communications, and a senior business development and marketing executive at Boston Technology and Wang Laboratories. His undergraduate work was done at the University of Michigan and his M.B.A. studies were done at Southern Methodist University.
dortega@xamplify.com
Kevin Murphy
Director of Sales
Kevin Murphy has a proven record in sales management and business development in the financial services industry. Before joining Xamplify he was Director of Sales with Xpede Inc., where he built an account base of several "Top 10" U.S. banking clients utilizing Xpede's "Financial Relationship Management" and CRM solutions. Prior to Xpede Kevin had a senior sales role at IMX Exchange where he sold business-to-business mortgage exchange technology to national mortgage lenders. Prior to IMX Exchange, Kevin held product development, business development, and sales positions for the California Housing Finance Agency and Independent National Mortgage (now IndyMac Bank). Kevin earned his B.S. in Business Administration from the California State University Sacramento.
kmurphy@xamplify.com
David Donoho
Chief Consultant, Statistics
David Donoho is a professor of Statistics at Stanford. Winner of a MacArthur "genius" Fellowship, Donoho has done pioneering work in statistical theory and has applied it to a broad range of practical applications. One of his primary interests is "robust statistics." He has devised strategies for detecting errors in a database containing many dissimilar types of data. His recent research has centered on the theoretical properties of wavelets and he has developed a suite of interactive computer modules for exploring their properties. He is a former Presidential Young Investigator and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has published extensively. Donoho earned his bachelor's degree from Princeton and his Ph.D. from Harvard.
Niels Waller, Ph.D.
Chief Consultant, Quantitative Psychology
Niels Waller, Ph.D., is Professor and chair of Quantitative Psychology at Vanderbilt University. He is interested in the development and application of quantitative models of individual differences. His main areas of expertise are item response theory, taxometric methods, factor analysis, and quantitative genetics. Among numerous other awards, Dr. Waller is a recipient of the 1998/1999 American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology in the area of Individual Differences.
His work has also focused on the application of computerized adaptive testing to personality assessment. He has written a program, MicroFact, that allows social scientists to correctly analyze ordered categorical data in large data sets. He recently won a grant to review the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)--the standard that mental health professionals use to measure psychopathology. Dr. Waller is the author (with Dr. Paul E. Meehl) of Multivariate Taxometric Procedures: Distinguishing Types from Continua (SAGE University Press). He received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota.